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THREE LITTLE 
RUNAWAY TREES 

A Christmas Play in Two Acts 


BY 

MARY TAYLOR CORNISH 

Author of Tommy’s Thanksgiving Dinner 



BECKLEY-CARDY COMPANY 

CHICAGO 





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Copyright, 1925, by 

BECKLEY-CARDY COMPANY 

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TMP92-008930 

Printed in the United States of America 

JAN-2'26 


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CHARACTERS 


Three Pine Trees 

Tree Number One . a little girl 

Tree Number Two.. 

a girl somewhat taller than Number One 

Tree Number Three. 

. a girl same size as Number One 

Christmas Spirit . an older girl 

Dora \ 

Edith \. school girls 

Helen J 

Mrs. 0 'Brien . a poor widow 

A Man . a young man 

A Group of Fairies . who sing a song 

Note: The song may be sung by the fairies, or by the 
audience, omitting the fairies from the cast. If the 
play is given in a church or auditorium where an organ 
is available, the latter would be a pleasing feature. 


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COSTUMES 


The Trees should be dressed in brown from head to foot, 
with branches of pine fastened on the shoulders and 
reaching above the head. Each arm should have pine 
branches attached. Bits of pine may be sewed over the 
dress in different places. 

Christmas Spirit should wear either a very pale blue or a 
white dress, trimmed with tinsel. Wings should be at¬ 
tached to her arms. 

Dora, Helen and Edith wear ordinary street dress, Dora's 
and Edith's being perhaps a trifle better than Helen's. 

Mrs. 0 ’Brien wears a shirtwaist and long skirt, with apron 
and shawl. 


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THREE LITTLE RUNAWAY TREES 

Scene: An unimportant street . Curtain rises to show 
the Three Little Trees hopping about, awkwardly, with 
their feet held tightly together. They move toward the 
center of the stage. As soon as they take positions on the 
stage, the tallest one in the middle, they sing. 

Trees [sing to music given on page 17] : 

Lonely little trees are we, 

Just as sad as we can be; 

We were growing in the wood, 

Tall and straight as pine trees should, 

When a man from a near-by town 
Took an axe and chopped us down. 

Oh! O-oh! Oh! O-oh! 

Took an axe and chopped us down! 

Tree Number One : Oh, I am so tired! 

Tree Number Two ; So am I, and my roots ache terribly. 

Tree Number Three: Your roots? [Laughs.] You 
haven’t any. They were cut off. 

Tree Number Two [crossly] : Well, then, the place where 
my roots were, aches. I can hardly stand up. 0—ooh! 
[Totters from side to side.] 

Enter Christmas Spirit 

goes quickly to The Tree and straightens her up.] 

Christmas Spirit : What are you three poor little pine 
trees doing here ? From where do you come ? 

The Trees all answer at the same time, speaking their 
words so rapidly and in such a jumble that the audience 
cannot understand a word. 

Tree Number One : We lived on a hill in the forest glen— 

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THREE LITTLE RUNAWAY TREES 


Tree Number Two: A wicked man with a big old axe 
chopped— 

Tree Number Three : We are all so tired we don’t know— 

Christmas Spirit [holding her hands over her ears, and 
laughing ] : Don’t all talk at once, Little Trees. You will 
deafen me. Now then, suppose you [indicates Tree Num¬ 
ber Two] tell me. 

Tree Number Two: Every winter about this time, men 
come to the forest to cut down trees. They say they want 
them for Christmas trees. 

Tree Number One [excitedly] : Yes, and we were on the 
top of the hill, and the man cut us down and— 

Tree Number Three [interrupting] : And put us in a 
wagon. But he had hardly got us in there until he spied 
our sisters and brothers just older than we; then he threw 
us out—and— 

Tree Number One [interrupting] : Left us there to die! 
Wasn’t that cruel of him? 

Christmas Spirit: Perhaps he did not mean to be cruel. 
Many are so without realizing it. 

Tree Number One : You may be right. I remember that 
he turned to the boy with him, and said: 1 ‘ I am sorry I 
cut these little trees down. They are too small for Christ¬ 
mas trees. ’ ’ 

Tree Number Three : It wouldn’t have been quite so bad, 
but we all have been longing and praying to be made into 
Christmas trees. 

Christmas Spirit: How did you get to this little side 
street ? 

Tree Number One: We wanted to see what th,e world is 
like, so we just rolled down the hillside and then stumped, 
like this { hops a few steps with both feet held tightly 
together] the rest of the way. 

Tree Number Two : And we are all tired. Oh, so tired. 

Christmas Spirit : Poor little trees! I should think you 
would be. 


THREE LITTLE RUNAWAY TREES 


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Tree Number Three : We shouldn’t have minded it, though, 
if only we could have been Christmas trees. Did you ever 
see a Christmas tree? 

Christmas Spirit [smiling] : Indeed, I have. My name is 
Christmas Spirit. 

Tree Number One: Christmas Spirit! What a lovely 
name! What do you do ? 

Christmas Spirit : I send thoughts into the minds of peo¬ 
ple. 

Tree Number Two : What kind of thoughts ? 

Christmas Spirit : Thoughts of love for others. You know 
the word Christmas means Christ-mass—a festival in 
honor of our Lord’s birthday. He gave his life for others. 

Tree Number Two: And people put gifts on Christmas 
trees—for others, don’t they? [Christmas Spirit nods.] 
I’ve heard men in the forest talking about it. 

Christmas Spirit : Just nineteen hundred and twenty-five 
years ago, the Christ Child was born. How better could 
you celebrate His birthday than by filling your souls with 
love—love especially for those who are less fortunate than 
you? 

Tree Number Three : But dear Christmas Spirit, we are 
only little trees. We can’t do anything, can we? 

Christmas Spirit [smiling] : Dear me! I had forgotten 
you were trees and not human. My dear little trees, you 
show your love for others in everything you do. When 
you are growing, you are a blessing to mankind. When 
you are transformed by men’s hands into beautiful fur¬ 
niture, into houses, into ships, into the thousand other 
things trees may be made into, you are a blessing. If it 
be your lot to be cut into fuel to keep the hearth cheery 
and people warm, you are a blessing. If you die only to 
rot and decay, you nourish Mother Earth, and are still 
one of mankind’s greatest blessings. You are one of God’s 
most wonderful gifts, Little Trees. 

Tree Number Two : Christmas trees seem to make people 
especially happy. I wish we could see one. 


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THREE LITTLE RUNAWAY TREES 


Christmas Spirit [enthusiastically] : I know what we can 
do. I shall stay here, just back of you [takes her place 
just back of Tree Number Two, spreading out her wings] 
and as people pass down this road, I shall try to lodge a 
bit of my spirit with them. If they are proud and selfish, 
I shall probably not be able even to attract their atten¬ 
tion. You must help me, Little Trees. 

Enter a Man 

[He walks with head downcast, as if worried ] 

Christmas Spirit [stretching out her arms toward him] : 
Oh, man, look at these trees and think of some child whom 
you might make happy with one of them. [The Man’s 
head is still bent as he walks slowly on.] You see, dear 
Trees, he does not hear my voice. He cannot even see 
you. 

Tree Number One : Is he proud and selfish ? 

Christmas Spirit [shaking her head] : It is not pride with 
him. He looks as if he were troubled. Some are so 
weighted with the cares of this world that they never 
hear my voice. If they would but listen, they might gain 
happiness from me. 

Tree Number Two: We’ll help make him see us. Come, 
Sisters, let us sing our whispering wind-song. He will 
never know we are singing; he will think it is the wind 
blowing through our branches. 

Trees [prolonging the “ss” gives the idea of wind. If lips 
are moved to a whistling position, then flattened again, 
two or three times during the holding of the “s”, the> 
effect will be better ] : Chris-ss-ss mas . . . ss . . . trees . . . 
szz . . . zzzzz eezzzzzz . . . 

[The Man, still lost in thought, pays no attention.] 

Christmas Spirit : His mind is on everything save me. I 
can’t get a foothold there. 

[The Man stops, apparently in deeper thought, just in 
front of Tree Number One.] 


THREE LITTLE RUNAWAY TREES 


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Tree Number One: Shhh! I’ll fix him. [She stretches 
out her hand and sticks him with the pine needles.] 

The Man [jumping back] : Ouch! [Sees Trees.] Well! 
What in the world are these pine trees doing here ? 

Trees [singing] : Chris . . ss . . . ss_mas . . . ss . . . sss 

. . . trees ... zz ... z .. . zz. 

[Tree Number One again stretches forth her hand and 
pricks him with her pine needles.] 

Man : Onch! Queer little trees. They seem to be trying 
to talk. 

Trees : Chris ... ss ... ss ... mas ... ss ... ss ... ss trees 
...Z...Z..Z.. zzzzzz. 

Man [with sudden inspiration] : By George! I believe 
I’ll take one of these trees down to John Martin’s house. 
The poor fellow’s wife is sick in bed, and he has to take 
care of her and the children, and at the same time work 
at odd jobs to make a living. Pretty hard lines. I’ll 
decorate this little tree and take it over to his kids this 
evening. 

Trees [gleefully] : We got him. 

Christmas Spirit : You did it with your sweet, whispering 
wind-song. 

Tree Number One [laughing] : Sweet, whispering wind- 
song, nothing! I did it with my needles. 

Tree Number Two [as Man leads off Tree Number One] : 
Let us meet at this spot at twelve tonight, and tell each 
other what we have found. 

Tree Number One [calling back as she makes her exit with 
The Man] : I’ll be here. 

Enter Dora, Edith, and Helen, right 

Christmas Spirit : Here come some children. It will not 
be hard to find a lodging in their innocent minds. Listen ! 
They are talking. 

Edith : We are going to have the loveliest Christmas tree. 
Are you ? 



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THREE LITTLE RUNAWAY TREES 


Dora : Father bought a tree from a poor man who had a 
wagon load of them for sale. 

Helen : We were going to have one—but— you know the 
Lawrence’s, don’t you? 

Girls [nodding] : Uh, hu. 

Helen: Well, Mr. Lawrence broke his leg three weeks ago 
and is, of course, out of work. They try to keep up ap¬ 
pearances, but they are awfully poor. Mrs. Lawrence was 
lamenting yesterday that they would have no tree this 
year for the little ones. So my brother and I decided to 
let them have the tree we were going to buy. Then Daddy 
said we would better take the money and buy them some¬ 
thing to eat, fruit and things like that. We did and we 
won’t have any Christmas tree. 

Christmas Spirit [to Trees] : This child already has me 
enthroned in her heart. If she sees you, she will make use 
of you. Sing your little wind-song. 

Trees: Chris . . . ssssss .... ssssss.ssss . . . masssss 

. . . sss . . . trees . . . z . . zzz. 

Helen [joyfully] : Oh, girls! Look! Look at those trees! 
Why, they are whispering to us. Can’t you hear ? 

Edith [smiling with a superior air] : That’s only the wind, 
Helen. [Trees wink at each other.] But they will make 
lovely Christmas trees. 

Helen : Oh! Oh! We can make them lovely and shining 
with Christmas balls and silver tinsel. If both of you 
have trees, I can take one of these to Lawrence’s, and 
keep the other for my brother and me. 

Dora : Surely. That will be nice. 

Enter Mrs. 0 ’Brien, left 

Dora : And we shall help you carry them home. 

Mrs. O’Brien [wiping her eyes with her apron] : Shure, an’ 
could yez till me the strate to the docthor’s ? 

Helen : You follow this road two blocks and turn to your 
right. It’s about six blocks from here. 



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Mrs. 0 ’Brien : Thank ye, Miss. Me Patsy is so sick, an ’ 
I’m thinkin’ thot all what ails him is because I’ve been 
promisin’ him a nice Christmas tree, an’—an’ [wipes her 
eyes again] now I can’t give ut to him for the simple 
rayzun that I’ve not the money. He’d set his heart on a 
Christmas tree, too. 

Helen [sympathetically] : The poor little dear. How old 
is he? 

Mrs. 0 ’Brien : He’s but sivin, a-goin ’ on eight—but as 
shmart as a whip, iv I do say so whut shudden’t. 

Helen: You tell little Patsy he shall have his Christmas 
tree. I’ll fix this one for him. See? 

Mrs. 0 ’Brien : Oh, ut’s a beeyutiful tree, ut is. Nicer than 
I could ivir have bought. 

Dora : Where do you live ? 

Mrs. O’Brien: Do ye see the little rid house ’way down 
thestrate? [Points.] 

Girls : Yes. 

Mrs. O’Brien: Wull, thot’s not ut. Do ye see the white 
house nixt ut? [Points.] 

Girls [eagerly] : Yes, we see it. 

Mrs. 0 ’Brien : Wull, thot’s not ut. Do ye see the brown 
house nixt the white ? [Points.] 

Girls [peering down the street] : Yes, we see it. It that 
it? 

Mrs. O’Brien: Shure an’ ut’s not. Do ye see the purty 
little grane house nixt? [Points.] 

Girls [peering] : Yes. 

Mrs. O’Brien: Shure an’ thot’s the wan. 

Helen : All right. We’ll see that Patsy gets his tree. 

Mrs. O’Brien [wiping her eyes]: Shure an’ ’tis good 
gurrls ye are. Good-by—an’ God bliss ye. 

Edith : Poor Helen! You have no tree after all. If you ’re 
going to be like this all of your life, you’ll never have 
anything. 


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Helen : Oh, well. I have so many other things to make me 
happy. I can plan something for little brother for Christ¬ 
mas. He will be glad I gave the tree to Patsy. 

Dora: Come on, Helen, to my house, and we’ll fix up the 
tree with some of my trimmings. 

Edith : I ’ll give some, too. 

Dora and Helen each take a tree 

Christmas Spirit : My work here is done. Merry Christ¬ 
mas, Little Trees! 

Tree Number Two [as Girls and Trees exeunt, left, and 
Christmas Spirit exits, right ] : Meet with us at midnight, 
Christmas Spirit, won’t you? 

Christmas Spirit : I ’ll try. But, if I do not see you again, 
Merry Christmas! 

CURTAIN 

[It is not necessary to have a curtain if it is inconvenient.] 

Note: Between Acts I and II, a group of Christmas 
Fairies or the audience may sing. 


Act II 


Same Scene. Midnight. Bluish lights flood the stage. 
Tree Number Two, brilliantly trimmed with Christmas 
balls and tinsel garlands, stumps to center of stage. 

Tree Number Two [looking all about] : Nobody here. I 
hope they will come. 

Enter Christmas Spirit 

Christmas Spirit: Ah, here yon are! I am glad you 
came. I have so much to tell. 

Enter Tree Number One from right; Tree 
Number Three from left 

Tree Number One: Oh, Sisters! You never can guess 
what I have to tell you. 

Tree Number Two : Oh, let me tell about Patsy! He is 
the dearest little boy! His mother told him Santa Claus 
would come and bring him a baby Christmas tree. The 
little fellow went to sleep with a smile on his face. The 
funny old woman hugged me and cried and cried. 

Tree Number Three: Cried? Why did she cry? Were 
you careless enough to stick her? 

Tree Number Two : Of course not. She was crying with 
happiness. She almost choked me with her hugs, and she 
said, “Whisht! ’Tis but a baby yez are, like me own 
Patsy, but nivir hov I laid me eyes on a more beyutifuller 
tree. An’ ’twas a swate young gir-rul that giv yez to 
me.” 

Tree Number One : You talk just like her. 

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Tree Number Two: Oh, but I am happy. Those girls 
bought ever so many toys and fruits and clothes and piled 
them all about me on the floor. When Patsy opens his 
eyes in the morning, the first thing he sees will be me! 

Christmas Spirit : If people only realized how much hap¬ 
piness comes from making others happy, I am sure they 
would do it a little more often. 

Tree Number Two : The poor mother said to me, ‘ ‘ Shure 
an’ I’ll kape yez for a wake, an’ then ’tis nice an’ warm 
ye’ll kape us, whin I put yez on the fire to burn.” 

Christmas Spirit : It’s hard to tell whether Patsy, or his 
mother will get the most pleasure out of you. 

Tree Number Three : That is the way it is where I am. 
Mr. Lawrence, the father with the broken leg, has me 
right in the corner of his bedroom, and when the chil¬ 
dren troop in to see him tomorrow morning, they will 
have a great surprise. Mr. Lawrence was so happy that 
he sat right up in bed, and said: “ You’re a little bit of all 
right, little Christmas Tree ! ’ ’ 

Tree Number One: Well, you’ll never guess where I am! 

Trees Number Two and Three : Of course we can. Didn’t 
the man say he was going to give you to a John Martin? 

Tree Number One: But who is John Martin? 

Trees : How could we know that ? 

Tree Number One: He’s the man who CHOPPED US 
DOWN! 

Trees Number Two and Three : Oh! Oh! Tell us about 
him. 

Tree Number One : Well, it seems he threw us out of the 
wagon because we were too little to sell. He needs every 
cent he can get for food for his family. His wife is ill, 
and the poor man has to take care of her and of the chil¬ 
dren. He has to do the cooking and pick up odd jobs. 
You never will know how glad he and his wife were to see 
me. I think he recognized me, because he said: “Wife, 


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this looks like one of the little trees I was telling you 
about. They were little beauties, but too small. I had 
to load up on the kind that sells for the most money. ’ ’ 

Tree Number Two : I didn’t think he meant to be cruel. 

Tree Number One: You must be right, Christmas Spirit, 
in what you say about happiness in giving. The man who 
gave me to John Martin, has been over twice to see me, 
and each time he came whistling as merrily as if there 
were not a trouble in the world. 

Christmas Spirit : He has my spirit in his heart now. 

Tree Number Three : Oh, I forgot to tell you about Helen. 
The corner where I stand is right by a window, and I 
can see all that goes on at Helen’s house. Dora and Edith 
went home and told their parents about Helen, and what 
do you think happened? 

Trees Number One and Two : What ? 

Tree Number Three: Why, the parents bought Helen a 
lovely tree and trimmed it up with lovely things. It is 
larger than we are, and it has a lot of presents hung on it. 
They have put the tree in the dining-room, right where 
she will see it when she goes down to breakfast in the 
morning. 

Christmas Spirit : I am glad for Helen. 

Trees : So are we. 

Tree Number Two: It’s lovely to be a Christmas tree 
[sighs ], but it cannot last long. And when we are thrown 
into the fire to give out warmth and cheer, let us bid them 
farewell with our merriest, crackling song, until our last 
ember has gone to ashes. 

Tree Number One : I am sure we shall. But we must get 
back to our places, you to your Patsy, you to the Law¬ 
rence’s, and I to John Martin’s. Good-by, dear Christ¬ 
mas Spirit. 

Christmas Spirit: Good-by? Little Trees, you are not 
telling me good-by. You cannot. I am enthroned in the 
very heart and bark of you. 


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Christmas trees are we; 

Clothed with brightness in 
Loving memory 
Of the Holy Babe 
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Rummage—Race . .25 

(Jncle Sam, P. M.—Race...._.-.... ,25 

SPECIAL DAY ENTERTAINMENTS 

The Best Christmas Book—Sindelar... .40 

The Best Thanksgiving Book—Sindelar.40 

Christmas at Stebbinses’—Irish.25 

Closing Day Entertainments—Sindelar.40 

Merry Christmas Entertainments—Sindelar.40 

Polly in History-Land, or Glimpses of Washington—Painton.. .25 

Susan Gregg’s Christmas Orphans—Irish.25 

PLAYS 


The Great Turkey-Stealing Case of Watermelon County—Gra¬ 
ham . .25 

The Last Half-Day in the District School—Fraser-Higgins.35 

The Prize Essay, or “Boy Wanted”—Painton.35 

The Value of X—Painton.35 


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BOOKS AND HELPS FOR TEACHERS 

A specially selected list of books and helps which have 
become popular because of their practical value. There 
are few teachers indeed who have not been helped by 
one or more of these publications. We unhesitatingly 
recommend every one of the titles offered. 

DRAWING 

Easy Things to Draw—Augsburg...$0.45> 

SEAT WORK 

Primary Seat Work, Sense Training and Games—Smith.$o.85> 

Primary Sewing and Color Cards—Cleaveland: No. 1 , Animal 
Series; No. 2 , Fairy-Tale Series; No. 3 Children-of-the- 

World Series. Each set.. ... .25 

Straight-Line Sewing Cards—Cleaveland.25 

PENMANSHIP 

Muscular Movemeiat Writing Slips.. ..fO.If 

ARITHMETIC 

Moody Number Games—Moody. Series 1,... , . , , , $o.85 

Moody Number Games—'Moody. Series 2 ....... . .85 

Number Games for Primary Grades—Harris* Waldo .85 

Numbtir Stories—Deming . .85 

LANGUAGE, GRAMMAR AND COMPOSITION 

Games and Rhymes for Language Teaching in the First Foul 

Grades—Deming .. ......$o.85 

Language and Composition by Grades—Hammond.......... i.oo 

Language Games fo»* All Grades—Deming—Book only... .80 

With Cards . 1.2C 

One Hundred Stories for Reproduction—Grove.... .30 

Primary Language Stories—Deming. 50 

MUSIC 

Best Primary Songs—Kellogg. ......$ 0.20 

Merry Melodies—Hanson. 20 

New Common-School Song Book—Smith-Schuckai. .70 

Silvery Notes—Hanson. 20 

Songs We Like Best.15 

Weaver’s New School Songs—Weaver.. ...... .30 

OPENING AND GENERAL EXERCISES 

Best Memory Gems—Sindelar. .$0.30 

Morning Exercises for All the Year—Sindelar........ , .. 1.00 

CLASS RECORDS 

Simplex Class Record—Cloth... $0.50 

Paper. .......... .35 

Simplex Seat Plan (with Cards). ... .. 6f 

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